Talk:tobacco mosaic virus
Latest comment: 9 years ago by DCDuring in topic Tobacco mosaic virus
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SoP tobacco mosaic + virus. (Note the first-page estimate of 1277 hits for google books:"tobacco mosaic" -"tobacco mosaic virus" versus 5460 for "tobacco mosaic virus", so that the shorter term definitely is widely used.)—msh210℠ 17:02, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- I guess the virus is a qualifier. If kept we'd need to create cold virus, flu virus and some that I haven't thought of yet. That said, I'm still undecided. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:10, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- No, this is the standard form of the name. It's a situation where scientists make a distinction between the disease/symptoms and the "organism" that causes those symptoms. Tobacco mosaic is a disease in plants, while TMV (the tobacco mosaic virus) is the viral particle that causes that disease. This distinction isn't usually made for human diseases, which is perhaps one reason so many people mistakenly say "HIV virus", when what they mean is either "HIV" or "AIDS virus". --EncycloPetey 16:50, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- But see [[tobacco mosaic]].—msh210℠ 16:35, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- No, this is the standard form of the name. It's a situation where scientists make a distinction between the disease/symptoms and the "organism" that causes those symptoms. Tobacco mosaic is a disease in plants, while TMV (the tobacco mosaic virus) is the viral particle that causes that disease. This distinction isn't usually made for human diseases, which is perhaps one reason so many people mistakenly say "HIV virus", when what they mean is either "HIV" or "AIDS virus". --EncycloPetey 16:50, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- Looks like tobacco mosaic + virus to me. Delete and consider defining the first as the disease and then the virus that causes it. DAVilla 16:09, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- That's been done.—msh210℠ (talk) 17:04, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Deleted.—msh210℠ (talk) 17:04, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Tobacco mosaic virus is the proper name of the virus species, established by the ICTV and widely used. I wonder whether tobacco mosaic virus refers to the same well-specified virus and is also a proper name. DCDuring TALK 15:57, 26 July 2014 (UTC)